Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-01-28


as to cause violent Precipitation, since this would
cause q breaking up of this natural scurf
Where animals are kept in stable this must
not only be broken up but elimtnated, This lie
done by acareful but thorough use Of the curry
comb and brush. 1t is not simply necessary that
the animals be cleaned of outside dirt. The
daudrutf itself must be cleaned from the hair
and the hair left bright. =. q, |
National Stockman: Why is ensilage better
than the same stalk dried? Why is ripe, juicy
apple better to eat than a dried one? The one
has not had its cellular structure turned into
wood by drying, and It goes into the system In
o soluble condition, ready to be acted upon by
the fluids of the stomach, and without very
much preparation Is ready for assimilation. The
cellular tissue Of the dried plants must be first
eoftened, or broken down, so that the starches,
sugars, nitrogen, lime, etc., can be liberated sll
calling for an increased expenditure of animal
orce to accomplish exactly what nature has al
TARIFF FIGURES.
The National Stockman figures out some tar
# duties on foreign agri cultural products as fol-
lows: Barley 10 cents per bushel; corn, 10; oats,
10; .ye, 10; wheat, 20; potatoes, 80 pounds, IL
cents; wool, clothing and combing, under 80 cents
por pound, 10 cents per pound; wool. carpet,
under cents per pound, IA cents per pound;
wool, carpet, over cents per pound, 5 cents per
pound. There are no American woods which
compete with carpet woods except little from
Texas and New Mexico woods: There is duty
on cheese OF cents pound; and on butter the
on straw and flax, IS per ton. Tobacco has a
nigh duty In all Its forms. Eggs are free.
CELLAR TEMPERATURE
"A cheap and very effective way" Gays the
New England Farmer, "to raise the temper nature
In cellar that is dangerously near the freezing
point Ia to set one or more common kerosene
lamps on the cellar bottom during the day time
when not wanted for lighting the rooms abuve.
We have all noticed how much warm. r living
room Is In the evening, when the lamps are
burning than in the daytime with the same
amount OF IRE in the stoveslor furnaces. All
the heat from burning lamp is retained in the
apartment. Twenty-Five cents worth of kero-
sene oil will throw out a surprising amount Of
heat, and In many cases it would be the cheapest
means for keeping cellar from freezing during
the passage of al extra cold wave"
WASH FOR THE TEETH.
Dissolve two ounces Of powdered borax in
three pints Of hot water. Before quite cold add
one tablespoonful OF spirits OF camphor and two
table-spoonfuls OF tincture of myrrh; bottle and
cork tightly. Add one wine-glass Of this mix
ture to tumbler OF warmish water, morning
and evening, and apply it with soft brush or
sponge rubber. This solution will! preserve and
oeaut1fy the teeth, arrest incipient decay, and
produce healthy action on the gums, and is the
best thing wherewith to rinse the mouth 1t is
an easy thing to whiten teeth by the use of acids
or corrosive substances, but thos evil invariably
injure the eramel, and thus produce decay.
CHOCOLATE CREAM.
Put into small stewran pint of milk and six
ounces OF pounded loaf sugar, making it very
hot, and then stir into it half pint OF made
chocolate and the beaten yoks o: seven eggs.
Put It into jug stand it in saucepan of boil
ing water, and stir it one way till it becomes
rather thick, but do not let it boil then strain it
through muslin. and stir into it large cupful Of
cream. Pour it int mould previously dipped
into cold water, and put the mould on ice to Get.
CHEWING THE cUD,
Illumination, or chewing the cud, il the pro-
cess where by the runinant animals collect their
food land with little or no mastica:iou when
such food is perfectly soft and moist, as in
grass, they form it into a bolue, and with little
expenditure Of saliva. they pass it down the
gullet into the paunch, which. when it has be-
come distended with a sufficient quantity, etimu-
lates the animal to seek for rest and quiet and
he commonly lies down. The paunch begins
atlng portion from the contained macs, and
return it into the mouth, where it undergoes a
complete m"st;ca'ion; being retained from fall
ing out OF the mouth again by the numerous
paplllae or roughness on the tongue, which are
pointed backwards, and also by the ridges of
the palate; Sufficiently masticated and mixed
with the saliva, it is again passed down the
threat but instead of again entering
the first stomach, and muscular gutter forms
itself into tube aud carries it at once into
10 hir1 ,,,0h
undergo further change, it is pressed into the
red bag Qontth stvmach), to undergo further
solution by means of the gastric fluid prepare
tory to it's being converted into nutriment under
the name of chyle.
GENERAL NOTES.
The stock Of English wheat is reduced to TO-
OOO, 600 bushels, against $4,000 900 at the same
time laet year.
Interest is like an open faucet to the molaeses
barrel. The moasses will run ont slowly, but
it will all get out
Austro-Hungary is notexporting much wheat.
good share Of Indian, Russian and American
wheat exports is going to France, Italy, and
Spain.
About II, O0O pounds OF silk cocoone, averaging
vi per pound, have been raised in Utah during
the last year. The industry is still in it's infan-
cy, but the outlook is very tattering.
1t seems quite certain that British India's
power Of shipment OF wheat this year is deficient
20. 000, O0O to 5000, 900 bushels as compared
with last year.
The man who puts up barbed-wire fence in
Nebraska is responsible for any damages sus-
tanned by men or animals coming in contact
with it.
Great Britain makes from her own orchards
22O,OO3,O 600 gallons Of cider annually, and i'm
ports about 9o0, 900 barrels Of apples from the
United States.
The London papers. commenting on the
wheat situation, say that America has the reins
entirely in her own hands. Europe wants some
thing like 100000 bushels per week from the
Atlantic ports during the next five or six months
IN preparing food for stock, such cooked a.
vegetables, chopped feed, etc., always season
with salt Every animal Graves it and must
have certain amount Of saline matter introduc.
ed into its system to enable it to thrive. Many
animals really suffer for the want Of salt, and
lose appetite, which is attributed to some other
cause. 5''' 2"t
Norwegian engineer, W. c. Moller, has
found that reindeer hair and skin possesses re.
markable buoyancy, and when the unehorn skin
Is used as life.be't it has the advantage over
cork OF warming tho wearer while in water. He